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Said one old tennis star: "I've been watching these matches, and I'm convinced that Riggs can win any match he damn pleases." Pancho Segura, who once swore that Big Jake could trample over any tennis player, admits that he has changed his mind: "Until now I never saw Riggs play his best . . . Riggs is a great arteesian." But Australia's Dinny Pails, the fourth member of the touring tennists, thinks that Kramer will come...
...Davis Cupper and the world's foremost amateur tennis player, turned professional (for a $50,000 guarantee). He will face Pro Champ Bobby Riggs in Madison Square Garden Dec. 26. Also expected to jump the amateur ranks, for second billing on the Kramer-Riggs tour: rambunctious Pancho Segura and Australia's singles champ and Davis Cupper, Dinny Pails...
Married. Francisco ("Pancho") Segura, 26, excitable Ecuadorian tennist, whose two-handed technique made him the first South American to win the U.S. Indoor Singles championship (1946); and Virginia Spencer Smith, 20, blonde Forest Hills, N.Y. tennis fan; in Manhattan...
...first four months (or 35% of the take, whichever is larger), to get him to go gunning for Bobby Riggs. Another proposition comes from a Chicago promoter named Jack Harris, who says he will meet Crosby's offer and go higher. Harris also wants Schroeder and Pancho Segura as a supporting feature: Crosby prefers a second billing of ex-Lady Champions Pauline Betz and Alice Marble...
After that, he might get to thinking about that cocky Bobby Riggs. During the past seven years, Big Jake and Cocky Bobby have often played against each other in doubles, sometimes for big side bets. Last fall at the Los Angeles Club, Big Jake (teamed with Segura) won $1,000 from Riggs (teamed with Frank Parker). But, by unspoken agreement, the two have never so much as suggested playing singles against each other since 1941-even for fun. When & if they do, it will be in Madison Square Garden, before a packed house, for important money. For Jake Kramer knows...